I have an abstract factory that is built around a static method which returns the appropriate object based on the arguments I give it. There's certain properties I want to set at the same time that this object is instantiated because they are necessary to every possible child object that it may generate.

Now here's the problem. From within a static method, you can only set static properties. So I switched all my properties that I need to set from there to static, simple solution and it works just fine, but I'm curious...

...is it possible to somehow set a non-static property from within a static method?

At first it seemed easy, set the non-static property from within the constructor of the child object, but the abstract factory has a few methods which I need to use across all objects which require these properties to be set as well, so I need to set them from within the static method, not from within the child.
-m